Maximum message count - Facebook PHP api

Question

I am working on a facebook app and since its my first facebook app, I am facing some problems with the PHP API.

I want to fetch the name and profile ID of the sender who sent maximum no. of messages. I am new to PHP and facing problems in proceeding after getting inbox object. Any help would be appreciated.

I am stuck here

$inbox = $user_profile['inbox'];

user_profile is an array where the data of user's profile and account is stored.

Answer 1

Use the PHP API to make a FQL request to the thread table. This will give you the Facebook ID of the originator :

$params = array(
    'method' => 'fql.query',
    'query' => "SELECT originator, message_count FROM thread WHERE  viewer_id = 8675309 and folder_id = 0 ORDER BY message_count DESC LIMIT 0,10");

$threads = $facebook->api($params);

Set the viewer_id appropriately. Notice the ORDER BY and LIMIT. This FQL is giving you the TOP 10 senders based on message_count. Then, if you need to get their name :

foreach($threads as $thread)
{
   print_r($thread);
   $originator = file_get_contents("http://graph.facebook.com/$thread['originator']");
   $originator_object = json_decode($originator);
   print $originator_object->name;
}